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South Walls, CaerwentSouth Walls, CaerwentAmphitheatre Venta SilurumCaerwent Roman TempleCivitas Silurum StoneLlanmelin Wood HillfortBulwarks Campoffa's dyke and a roman roadROMAN POSITION in SEDBURYWoodcroftSaint Arvans

Location:

  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Crick
  • geo:51.608295,-2.725731
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Temporary camp
  • invisible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=19808

Annotations

Royal Commission aerial reconnaissance on 22nd July 2013 discovered cropmarks of a Roman marching camp situated on a low ridge at Killcrow Hill, c.2.7km east of Caerwent Roman town. The camp measures 113m SW/NE by 87m NW/SE and encloses 0.98ha. making it the smallest camp in Wales and the Marches with an approximate holding capacity of 500  to 700 men. It has well defined simple gateways on the north side (7m wide) and west side (6m wide) but entrance gaps, if they exist, on the south and east sides are obscured by a lack of clarity in the cropmark and by darker patches of deeper soil on the east side.

It probably dates to the earliest Roman campaigns in the region, between AD 48 and AD 60/61, of which some of the earliest in south-east Wales against the Silures tribe date to AD 49-501.

See also

References

  1. Coflein: Killcrow Hill Roman Marching Camp


Nearby

Roman Rd (1 km)

Roman Rd

Villa at Castle Tump (Caerwent) (2 km)

Villa at Castle Tump (WHITEWALL BRAKE)

Black Rock Roman Ferry Port (2 km)

From this port ships sailed to Sea mills in Bristol.


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